Rachel Payne MP from Legalise Cannabis Victoria, said Melbourne should be one of the world’s great public transport cities, instead use has crashed by 42 per cent from its peak in 2018.
Legalise Cannabis Victoria has secured an amendment in the Upper House to allow magistrates to exercise sentencing discretion for drivers who test positive for the cannabinoid chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), if they hold a valid prescription for medicinal cannabis and are unimpaired while driving.
It was Transport Equity Week last week and while Queenslanders celebrated their 50c fare public transport trial becoming permanent, Victorians were still paying top dollar for a transport system that leaves everyone outside the city behind.
A new Victorian report into workplace drug testing has found that employees prescribed medicinal cannabis have routinely lost their job or faced disciplinary action just for taking a legal medication – and the law must be amended to protect them.
Legalise Cannabis Victoria (LCV) has welcomed the Allan government’s commitment to consider a legal defense for medicinal cannabis prescription holders who screen positive at roadside drug testing stops.
Tradies and parents prescribed medicinal cannabis have joined with MPs David Ettershank and Rachel Payne to launch a new campaign for fair driving laws.
Legalise Cannabis Victoria praise the arrival of pill testing in time for summer
21st of May 2024, 9:52am Legalise Cannabis Victoria MPs have called out Premier Jacinta Allan for delaying a decision on allowing medical cannabis patients to drive – instead preferring to spend millions of taxpayers’ dollars on research that has already been done. “Jacinta Allan may be…
“I’m ‘getting explicit’ for my Grandmother Doll and my Mum Julie, who have been directly impacted by family violence and the ongoing impacts of trauma and abuse.”
Debate on the Industrial Hemp Bill, introduced to Parliament by the Legalise Cannabis Party, was adjourned on Wednesday (May 15) while the Allan Labor government formulates its response to both the bill and the hemp industry inquiry. Legalise Cannabis Party MP Rachel Payne said the…
